MaestroReviews

Deb and I are artists, painters actually. We go see films as often as once a week. That's right, we go to the theater and sit in a dark room with strangers to see movies. We rarely rent. We like "little" movies, foreign and documentary films. We try to stay away from mainstream and blockbusters whenever possible, but a couple sneak in each year. We seek out the obscure. We try to avoid violent movies, and that really limits our choices, most film makers seem to think violence makes a story interesting.
I try not to give anything away in the reviews, but offer an honest reaction.
We rate them 1~10, 10 being highest.

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Argo

Deb 9     Me 9

I was pretty impressed with one. It's based on a real story, but many explanation points were added to give it suspense. But the tension was excellent, everyone was credible and the setting familiar. The film makers did a terrific job of getting that newsreel feel, the urgency of third world day to day drama. John Goodman is here and he's always a delight, even though he just seems to be himself in whatever he does these days, he's good enough to get away with it. I don't want to give anything away here, but the walk away feeling is good and having lived through the real events it was nice to get an iterpretation of what could have happened behind the scenes. A smart movie.
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